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Student Videos

Aysar talks about the importance of JAEP. He explains that his father and John showed him the importance of choosing education as the way of dealing with the occupation rather than either violence or mental illness. Aysar was one of the young boys taught by John in IBDAA.

JAEP visits are divided between Al Quds University and Dheisheh Camp. At the university time is spent with JAEP students, joining them for their classes and meeting their tutors. At Dheisheh more time is spent with the students and also their families.

This video begins with the journey on a service taxi from Bethlehem to Al Quds University. The film also includes footage of the streets of Dheisheh and grounds of Al Quds University.

Nihal is in the second year of a five year course in Dentistry. The course is available at Al Quds University but not Bethlehem. Nihal chose dentistry because her view is that this offers more career options for girls than medicine.

Nihal plans to open a dentistry clinic in Dheisheh because currently there isnt one.

Nihal thinks more girls applied for our scholarship than boys because, boys have more freedom and opportunities, including being able to earn money to support their studies.

Rasha is in her third and final year studying biology at Bards College based at Al Quds University. She chose to study at Bards because they have a US system, i.e. the student study a major subject and then select a number of minors.

Rasha has enjoyed for example Politics and Media and feels the structure of the course has enabled her to extend her knowledge. After her degree she plans to study for a master in bio-diversity, and is especially interested in the impact of politics on environmental issues

Khalil is in the fourth year of a nursing degree. He describes how he choose nursing because of his love of helping sick people & also that there are many career options unlike more traditional subjects

Khalil talks of Al Quds university being willing to accept boys to study nursing whereas Bethlehem University is more reluctant. Prior to studying nursing he volunteered in local hospitals

Filmed at her home in Dheisheh in November 2014. Nibal chose to study computer engineering because of her interest in understanding how computers work, and has really enjoyed her course especially learning about games programing

Indeed after her degree she hopes to complete a master degree and then start a business producing computer games

Nibal spoke of her journey to the university, explaining how before the checkpoints and separation wall the journey would take 10 minutes but it now takes an hour,